Original German WWI Prussian Guard Regiment M1895 Pickelhaube Spiked Helmet Original Items

Original Item: Only One Available. This is a rare German First World War M-1895 Prussian Guard brass-mounted leather helmet; known as a Pickelhaulbe. It displays a lovely condition brass Prussian large spread eagle helmet plate. The sides of the plate reads “Mit Gott für König und Vaterland” and the center reads “SUUM CIQUE”.
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Helmet is still fitted  with its supple original leather liner. The spike on top denotes infantry issue. The M-1895 Brass-mounted Pickelhaubes were commonplace until the simplified Model 1915 Pickelhaubes became more commonplace.  
 
This particular example is in overall good condition, with great condition leather and fittings. The leather finish has some checking, typical for a helmet of this age. The side lugs appears to have been painted long ago to give them an imitation brass finish.  The rear visor has come unstitched at one end, which, surprisingly, does not detract from the display-ability of this piece. Regardless, this is an excellent display piece!
 
The Guards Corps / GK (German: Gardekorps) was a corps level command of the Prussian and then the Imperial German Armies from the 19th Century to World War I.
 
The Corps was headquartered in Berlin, with its units garrisoned in the city and nearby towns (Potsdam, Jüterbog, Döberitz). Unlike all other Corps of the Imperial German Army, the Guards Corps did not recruit from a specific area, but from throughout Prussia and the “Imperial Lands” of Alsace-Lorraine.

In peacetime the Corps was assigned to the II Army Inspectorate but joined the 2nd Army at the start of the First World War. It was still in existence at the end of the war in the 4th Army, Heeresgruppe Kronprinz Rupprecht on the Western Front. The Corps was disbanded with the demobilization of the German Army after World War I.